Hi,

This is a very general question ...

I have Java code on a System-i (formerly iSeries and AS/400) box that translates an XML using an XSLT.

When I use Saxon for the translation, it takes approximately 3 seconds for a simple transformation.

However, using the built-in Crimson parser does the job in about 1 second.

Has anybody attempted this on a System i box before? (P.S: It is much faster on a modest Windows box) Is there anyway I can improve performance?

Any help will be appreciated,

Thanks!

Saxon is an XSLT processor, Crimson is an XML parser, so you can't compare the two... perhaps you are actually comparing Saxon with Xalan?

I don't have any experience of Java (or anything else for that matter) on AS/400 architecture.

In one case recently where Xalan was found to outperform Saxon, it turned out the user was using the Xerces DOM for the input and output trees. Xalan has a custom interface to Xerces which speeds up this combination; in Saxon it's much more efficient to use Saxon's native TinyTree. See http://saxonica.blogharbor.com/blog/...1/2848654.html

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference